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French investigators believe Kamel Daoudi is one such recruit; his tale illuminates both the nature of modern terrorist cells and their global reach. Daoudi was the kind of child that immigrant parents dream of having. The son of Algerians who had immigrated to France, he took the tough post-high school exams a year early and started to study computer sciences at a university in Paris. But he found the courses difficult, and according to reports, a family row exploded in 1999 when Daoudi's father found evidence of his son's appointments with psychiatrists. Daoudi left for Britain...
...Sept. 21, he made the same trip; this time, running not from his family but from the law. Daoudi slipped away from his apartment on the Boulevard John F. Kennedy after police across Europe started to round up the network that Beghal had assembled for his operations. (French investigators think Daoudi was the computer-and-communications whiz kid of the group.) Daoudi knew Britain well. He and Beghal had hung out there with Jerome Courtailler, one of two French brothers who had converted to Islam. For a while, Courtailler lived in south London with Zacarias Moussaoui, another French child...
Nizar Trabelsi, 31 Tunisian Status: Arrested Sept. 13 in Brussels. Suspected of involvement in preparations to attack the U.S. embassy in Paris - according to Djamel Beghal, Trabelsi was to be a bomber - and, by some accounts, NATO HQ in Brussels. Investigators say Trabelsi, Beghal and Kamel Daoudi attended the same Afghan training camp...
...Rotterdam Sept. 21, 2001 Lotfi Raissi, believed to have been a flight instructor for four of the hijackers, is arrested in London. French police take in seven people in the Paris suburbs believed to be members of Franco-Algerian militant Djamel Beghal?s network Sept. 25, 2001 Kamel Daoudi apprehended by police in Leicester after escaping the Sept. 21 French sweep of the Beghal group. Daoudi had lived in Djamel Beghal?s Paris-area flat, where he is believed to have maintained secure Internet communications for the group Sept. 26, 2001 Spanish police detain Mohammed Belaziz, allegedly a would...
...European analysts now believe that Takfir thinking has won converts among terrorist groups. Beghal is Takfiri, and Daoudi is thought to be. Roland Jacquard, one of the world's leading scholars on Islamic terrorism, says flatly, "Atta was Takfiri." It is not just soldiers of al-Qaeda who may be following the Takfir line. Mustafa was executed in 1978, but his ideas lived on; the beliefs of al-Zawahiri's Al Jihad were dominated by Takfiri themes. Azzam Tamimi, director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London, says of Zawahiri, "He is their ideologue now ... His ideas negate...